I made one black and white, one sepia and one coloured. A bit of bling ... red heart shaped gems ... home is where the heart is ...
Today the ladies from church had a day away ... not far, but to a lovely retreat centre called Shepherd's Dene, which is situated in the beautiful Tyne Valley in Northumberland!
This week I made 20 cards and matching ATC-sized bookmarks ... same design, different papers and embellies. They were to put into the goody bags which the ladies were given to take home with them. Here they are all together ...
And one by itself ... the theme of the day was taken from Esther 4 v 14 in the Bible ... "for such a time as this" ... I used this phrase on the cards and bookmarks as a memento of the day...
One of the ladies enjoying the garden:
The view from our meeting room - isn't it beautiful? We even saw a red squirrel scampering in the garden as we were having lunch!
I love the colours of Autumn ... I think this is my favourite season of all!
... I like the cards I make ... now here's two in a row!
I love my tree at sunset and don't think it will ever get sent to anyone!
I also like this Christmas card I made as part of Tee's challenge on the Charmed Craft Talk forum...which was to include: lace, glitter, and some type of embellishment...brads, chipboard, bloom...etc...and some words...
My card has a bit of a distressed feel to it! I used my Sepia inkpad on parchment type paper. Coloured lightly with Prismas. Stamp is See D's which I don't often like, but I was given this set and love the Santa stamp!!
My niece saw this after I'd made it and asked me to send it to her!!! So someone else likes it too!!!
Karen at the Charmed Craft Talk forum challenged us to make a card this weekend to celebrate World Cardmaking Day! She said: "It can be any theme at all but I want you to try and do something a little daring, something that takes you out of your comfort zone and stretches you a little."
Well, I'm the person who always thinks that other people can do things better than I can, so I love to have lots of pretty patterned papers in my stash ... and I love digi-images and stamps!
Today I made my own background ... using watercolours to try to get a decent sunset effect. I don't know about the sunset, but I love the colours and they turned out much better than I expected.
AND I drew my own tree! Now trees are what I doodle most when I am in meetings, so I was fairly confident about this part of my card ... not one of my better trees, but good enough! Never thought to use it on a card before now though!
Very pleased with how it turned out, even if there are no extra embellishments on the card!
Thanks for stopping by! Hope to see you again soon!
Ruth xx
... for a young friend who loves dancing!
Image from Sketching Stamper Digi-Stamps - isn't it lovely!? I coloured it with my Prismacolor Pencils...
A fellow DoCrafter (Angie) made the patterned paper!
My sister passed her driving test ... first a suitably girly card from me ...
and then a more refined card from mam and dad!
Today is Amelia's birthday!
Hope you're having fun, sweetie!
Here's the card I made her - can you spot the squiffy bits? I mean apart from the fact that I put it together all wrong and the patterned paper was supposed to be on the bottom. and I only discovered it AFTER I'd stuck things down ...
